Project Report on Bio Diesel From Algae Eiri-1034

High oil prices, competing demands between foods and other biofuel sources, and the world food crisis, have ignited interest in algaculture (farming  algae) for making vegetable oil, biodiesel, bioethanol, biogasoline, biomethanol, biobutanol  and other biofuels, using land that is not suitable for  agriculture. Among algal fuels' attractive characteristics: they do not affect fresh water resources, can be produced using ocean and wastewater, and are biodegradable and relatively harmless to  the env Factors. Dry mass factor is the percentage of dry biomass  in relation to the fresh biomass; e.g. if the dry mass factor is 5%, one  would need 20 kg of wet algae (algae in the media) to get  1 kg of dry algae cells. Lipid content is the percentage of oil  in relation  to the dry biomass needed to get it, i.e. if the  algae lipid content is 40%, one would need 2.5 kg of dry algae to get 1 kg  of  oil. The vegoil algae product can then be  harvested  and converted into biodiesel or green-colored crude oil. The  algae's carbohydrate  content  can  be  fermented  into  bioethanol and biobutanol. Currently  most research  into  efficient  algal-oil production  is being done in the private sector, but  predictions from small scale production experiments bear out that using algae to produce biodiesel may be the only viable method by which to produce enough automotive fuel to replace current  world  diesel usage.